Verifying The Failover Configuration; Using The Show Failover Command - Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Configuration Manual

Chapter 15 Using Failover
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Verifying the Failover Configuration

This section describes how to verify your failover configuration. This section includes the following
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Using the Show Failover Command

On each module, verify the failover status by entering the following command in the system execution
space:
primary(config)# show failover
This command shows the following information:
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See the following sample show failover command output. A description of each field follows.
FWSM(config)# show failover
Failover On
Failover unit Primary
Failover LAN Interface fover Vlan 150
Unit Poll frequency 15 seconds
Interface Poll frequency 15 seconds
Interface Policy 50%
Monitored Interfaces 249 of 250 maximum
Config sync: active
Last Failover at: 10:58:08 Apr 15 2004
Stateful Failover Logical Update Statistics
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"Failover Configuration Example" section on page 15-27
Using the Show Failover Command, page 15-19
Viewing Monitored Interfaces, page 15-22
Testing the Failover Functionality, page 15-22
"Monitoring Failover" section on page 15-23
The failover status, either on or off
The active module
The IP addresses assigned for the active and standby modules
The failover link information
The interface policy
The stateful failover statistics
This host: Primary - Active
Active time: 2232 (sec)
admin Interface inside (10.6.8.91): Normal
admin Interface outside (70.1.1.2): Normal
Other host: Secondary - Standby
Active time: 0 (sec)
admin Interface inside (10.6.8.100): Normal
admin Interface outside (70.1.1.3): Normal
Link : Luifc Vlan 151
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Catalyst 6500 Series Switch and Cisco 7600 Series Router Firewall Services Module Configuration Guide
for a typical failover configuration.
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